This year's recipients were the late Mama Luthuli, a pioneer of organizing women's groups during the apartheid era; Britain-based Hanif Bhamjee, founder of the anti-apartheid movement there which still supports projects among the poor in South Africa; Rajes Pillay, one of the first Indian women to join the military wing of the ANC in exile, Umkhonto Wesizwe; Richard Steele, who organised white resistance to conscription by the minority government in apartheid South Africa; Paul David, who was a champion for non-racial sport when it was segregated in apartheid days; and the late Kernick Ndlovu, who started one of the first trade unions in South Africa.

'This project is helping to build up a history of the many people who worked quietly in the background as the foot soldiers of the anti-apartheid movement and whose work has largely gone unrecorded,' Gandhi said.

The Trust also organises an annual Salt March here to symbolically commemorate the historic event by Mahatma Gandhi in India.